Fried Rice with Shrimp

Friend’s Favorite

This food recipe is a story of friendship. I have chosen to feature this specific fried rice recipe because it reminds me of a good friend whom I have recently met on Google Hangout. And if I have the opportunity to cooked, I would like to cook this recipe for that friend as a sign of my deepest gratitude. I am not sure if this would suffice my dear friend discriminating taste, but with hope that I will have the opportunity to discover their taste preference.

Fried rice is a very simple rice recipe with all the carbohydrates and proteins a person needs in a breakfast meal.  It is quick and easy to cook but it needs some day-before preparation, those ingredients are the cooked rice and the shelled-deveined shrimps. Or maybe…not at all, for day-old leftover cooked rice and leftover fried garlic shrimps seems to be made for fried rice. This is an economic, no waste, and healthy food options. In addition, the leftover cooked rice would not only be economic but also be ideal as most elders, like grandparents, claim about the best fried rice is cooked with day old cooked rice. Choices are great, so it is all up to you...to prepare or not to prepare? Below is the recipe:

 

Fried Rice with Shrimp

This recipe yields 2-4 servings.

Preparation Time:             15 minutes

Cooking Time:                   15-20 minutes

Ingredients:

4 cups                                 packed, cold cooked rice

1 1/2 tablespoons               water

1/2 cup                                fresh shrimp, shelled, deveined and sliced

2 large                                 eggs, well-beaten

1/2 teaspoon                       salt

4 tablespoons                     cooking oil

3 cloves                              garlic, minced

3 tablespoons                     onion, chopped

2 tablespoons                     soy sauce

1 teaspoon                         white sugar

1/4 teaspoon                      vetsin (optional)

1 tablespoon                      sherry vinegar (optional – sweet vinegar)

                                           A dash of pepper

2 tablespoons                    green onions or scallions, chopped

Procedures:

1. Prepare the rice. Loosen the grains with the water. Heat a 12-inch pan with 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. Then, add the rice and stir fry for 3 minutes. Set aside.

2. In a small bowl, mix shrimp, beaten eggs and salt.

3. Heat the same pan with the remaining cooking oil. Fry garlic and onion until light brown. Add the shrimp and egg mixture. Cook for 2 minutes, stir constantly.

4. Add the fried rice and stir for 3 more minutes.

5. Combine the last ingredients: soy sauce, white sugar, vetsin, sherry vinegar and pepper, except the green onion, stir for another 3 minutes. 

6. Sprinkle the scallions before removing from heat.

7. Best serve hot.

NTS:

Leftover cooked rice and fried garlic shrimps are economic alternative.

Shrimp may be substituted with crabmeat.

Warning: This recipe contains a food allergen, shellfish.

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As always enjoy!

Reference and Inspired by

1. From my mother’s cooking notes.

2. Zondraxor.